Baseline characteristics of study participants by dietary patterns.

<p>BMI, body mass index; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p>*Two participants with assigned dietary pattern did not have complete health assessments and GP records data, and were excluded from the analyses.</p><p>^†Kruskal-Wallis test for ordered and non-normally distributed continuous variables and χ² test for categorical variables. In the <i>post hoc</i> χ² test analyses, adjusted residuals were used to determine which cells were major contributors to rejecting the null hypothesis at α = 0.05.</p><p>^‡BMI was imputed with sex-specific means for 62 participants.</p><p>^§Fifteen point Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS).</p><p>Baseline characteristics of study participants by dietary patterns.